I served as principal investigator in two internal grants for young researchers and worked as researcher in one Horizon 2020 project and several national project (APVV, VEGA). List of major research projects I am currently involved in is as follows:

• Slovak Research and Development Agency, APVV 20-0499, period: 2021-2025, Title of Research Project: Follow the Money - Deciphering the Link between Shadow Banking Sector and the Illicit Financial Flows.

• National Science Centre Poland,  2018/31/B/HS4/00164, period: 2019-2023, Title of Research Project: Central banks' transparency and communication after the crisis.: Measurement and macroeconomic effects for European inflation targeting central banks.

• COST Action, CA21133, period: 2022-2026, Title of Research Project: Globalization, Illicit Trade, Sustainability and Security (GLITSS)

• National Bank of Slovakia, GV-2022-4-P15-Z2, period: 2023-2025, Title of Research Project: The Role of Exchange Rate Channel in the Transmission of Monetary Policy: The Case of Standard and Non-standard Monetary Policies (ROLEX)

Notable achievements include:

• awarded by the 1st prize in the Young Researcher up to 35 Years Competition 2020 by the Slovak Academy of Sciences in the field of Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, and Culture for series of articles on illicit capital flows and macroeconomic imbalances.

• papers awarded by the best paper prize by the University of Economics in Bratislava: 2019 (Nemethova - Siranova - Sipikal: Public support for firms in lagging regions - Evaluation of innovation subsidy in Slovakia), 2018 (Horvath - Kotlebova - Siranova: Interest Rate Pass-Through in the Euro Area: Financial Fragmetation, Balance Sheet Policies and Negative Rates)

• papers listed among top publications at the Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy: 2021 (Siranova - Workie Tiruneh - Fisera: Creating the illicit capital flows network in Europe – Do the net errors and omissions follow an economic pattern?), 2018 (Siranova - Radvansky: Performance of the Macroeconomic imbalance procedure in light of historical experience in CEE region), 2017 (Domonkos - Ostrihon - Sikulova - Siranova: Analysing the Relevance of the MIP Scoreboard's Indicators).   

• co-authored papers short-listed for INFER Annual Conference main prizes: 2022 (Siranova - Workie Tiruneh - Konig: Abnormal FDI as a driver of sudden stop episodes), 2018 (Tura-Gawron - Siranova - Flisikowski: What are the drivers of consumer inflation expectations in European Union? The results of spatial panel regressions models)  

• co-authored paper (Kotlebova, J.) "Ukraine as a Possible Growth Pole EU28 Economic Region" awarded by the Best Paper Award of 4th  Winter Seminar of Regional Science organized by ERSA (European Regional Science Association) in Slovakia, 2014. 

June-November 2022 (National Bank of Slovakia) - visiting researcher & cooperation with Andrej Cupak; January 2020 (IES Charles University in Prague) - cooperation with prof. Roman Horvath; November 2017 & January 2018 (Gdansk University of Technology) - cooperation with Karolina Gawron-Tura;  January 2016 (University of Bangor, United Kingdom) - invitation by prof. Philippe Molyneux;  January - June 2015 (Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland) - visiting researcher under supervision of prof. Ugo Panizza; May - August 2013 (University of Porto, Portugal) - visiting researcher, cooperation with Dr. Manuel Duarte Rocha.

I served as referee for several economics and finance journals including Economic Systems, Economic Modelling, Empirical Economics, Applied Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance, Eastern European Economics, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, Ekonomicky casopis (Economic Journal).